Couple gets jail for leaving baby in casino garage

[HAMILROCK]

ROSEVILLE, Calif. - A Northern California couple who left their newborn daughter in a casino parking garage while they went gambling are heading to jail.

A Placer County Superior Court judge sentenced Thuan Huy Nguyen and Panfila Phu Phan on Wednesday to 60 days. He also ordered them to attend a mandatory parenting class as part of a four-year probation sentence that could result in their regaining custody of the baby.

The couple were arrested in April after a security guard at Thunder Valley Casino found their 7-week-old infant alone in a car. Investigators determined the baby had been there for about 2½ hours.

The Rancho Cordova residents, both 27, pleaded no contest to felony child abuse charges in June.

Defence lawyer Anthony Palik says they know they made a poor decision.

[Seanie Mac]

Jesus

[Sweetleaf22]

wow, true action junkies..

[LordCC]

Thats disgusting and really sad to hear. Children look up to us, and expect guidance & they do something like that. Those people should have their children taken away from them & not allowed to get them back.

[Gobbler's Knob]

Sick. I never leave my kids for more than an hour in the car without checking on them when I'm playing Pai-gow at Fallsview.

[Triballife]

Good, stupid ass fuks, they should lock them in a car in the desert for a week.

[Triballife]

Asians =shocker

Do they have strategies or know something the rest of us don't or are they prone to gambling addiction more so than others?

Every time I go to one up here it seems that almost half of the people gambling are Asian, whats up with that?

[BigFratDaddy]

anyone that leaves a child in a car, especially in the summer texas heat deserves a 10 year minimum sentence in jail.

if the child dies, then they deserve life in prison.

every year someone leaves a child locked in a car in the summer in texas and the child dies and its so sad